I picked up these 4 coconut mugs at the local thrift store. The mugs look rather crude and almost homemade. The sides are matte, and the interiors are glazed. There are no marks printed around the sides, and there are no manufacturer stickers on any of the mugs.

The only clue to their identify is that one of the mugs has some difficult to read writing on the bottom. The text appears to read 'Tahitian' or maybe 'Jamaican'.

When I bought mine, I picked them up as a pair and only one of mine was marked. That is the one that sold for good money. The other went for 6 to 10 bucks...I don't recall exactly, but it wasn't nearly as much as the other.

On 2005-06-08 19:51, Cool Manchu wrote:When I bought mine, I picked them up as a pair and only one of mine was marked. That is the one that sold for good money. The other went for 6 to 10 bucks...I don't recall exactly, but it wasn't nearly as much as the other.

I figured the unmarked mugs would not be as valuable, but since I am in the buying and not selling mode, the thought of getting more than I paid for them is icing on the cake.

But even more importantly, I can justify my tiki addiction to the wahine, by saying the ugly mugs might be worth a tidy sum someday. _________________The Tikipedia
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Ah, yes. The tiki justification mechanism. I think we all have that. Mine is that I buy all I can find, then sell the duplicates. At the very least I break even, making my tiki collection FREE! Besides, I can quit anytime I want. Really I can.

If I were looking to collect these, and didn't happen to stumble across them in my local thrift shops for $.95 [tikipedia, you lucky... guy! ], how much should I expect to reasonably pay for them? And is there any other source besides ebay?

On 2005-07-09 22:04, Haole'akamai wrote:I too will pose my question in the "Coconut Mug" thread:
If I were looking to collect these,

if you're just looking for everyday use mugs, the Oriental Trading ones are good enough.
i like the Dynasty coconut cups better. there were some at Target earlier this year, but those were rumored to be stinky...

for vintage.. its just hit n miss.somtimes you get lucky, i a dozen "dead stock" Orchids of Hawaii 13A mugs for cheap on Craigslist. its all in the hunt with vintage!

We're building a Tiki Bar in the back yard (calling it Hinky Dinks, in ode to Mr Bergeron & our fair town of Oakland)out of the already standing wooden TuffShed, and thought it would be cool to serve everyone drinks in (vintage) coconuts.

So, I'm dredging up this old topic because, whilst in St. Augutine, FL, TofuJoe and I came across 22 Orchids of Hawaii coconut mugs at the local St. Vincent DePaul, which we promptly bought for 50 cents apiece (actually, we paid 50 cents, each, for 20 of them, leaving the two that had small chips on the shelf. When we got to the register, the guy behind the counter said he'd throw in the two chipped ones for free - how could we resist?).

How do we figure out the catalog number? Would anyone like to help with identification?

Mahalo!
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The ones we picked up have a completely different glaze (not matte like the R13-As I've seen, much more like the OOH double walled coconut. But they are of a more similar mold design to the R13-A, although the bottoms are completely different. Maybe just a later/earlier version of the R13-A?
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